WOOD COUNTY. This county is west of Upshur county and north of Smith county between the 18th and 19th degrees of longitude west from Washington its northern boundary being the 33d parallel of latitude. Its area is 418 square miles and population about 8,000. It is splendidly watered by numerous streams creeks and springs, and [...]
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WOOD COUNTY TEXAS. This is the most westerly of the counties along the line of the Texas & Pacific Railway having extensive forests of pine timber. All of the county is heavily wooded but the eastern half contains the great pineries from which the supplies for the large number of saw mills are drawn. In [...]
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Post villages and cities of Wood County, Texas from the Gazetteer of Texas (1904) Note: All were listed as post villages except for Mineola and Quitman. Alba, Andrews, Cartwright, Coke, Golden, Hainesville, Hawkins, Mikado, Mineola (City, pop. 1,725), Peach, Perryville, Pine Mills, Pleasant Grove, Quitman (County Seat), Redland, Smilax, Speer, Stagner, Stormville, Stout, Winnsboro (pop. [...]
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1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions – Texas – Wood County – ED 250-23, ED 250-24, National Archives Identifier: 5884546 Creator(s): Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Office of the Assistant Director for Operations. Geography Division. (03/13/1947 – 1968) This item lists Enumeration Districts for: TX ED 250-23: JUSTICE PRECINCT 7 OUTSIDE ALBA TOWN S [...]
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1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions – Texas – Wood County – ED 250-16, ED 250-17, ED 250-18, ED 250-19, ED 250-20, ED 250-21, ED 250-22, National Archives Identifier: 5884545 Creator(s): Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Office of the Assistant Director for Operations. Geography Division. (03/13/1947 – 1968) This item lists Enumeration Districts for: [...]
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1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions – Texas – Wood County – ED 250-10, ED 250-11, ED 250-12, ED 250-13, ED 250-14, ED 250-15, National Archives Identifier: 5884544 Creator(s): Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Office of the Assistant Director for Operations. Geography Division. (03/13/1947 – 1968) This item lists Enumeration Districts for: TX ED [...]
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1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions – Texas – Wood County – ED 250-5, ED 250-6, ED 250-7, ED 250-8, ED 250-9, National Archives Identifier: 5884543 Creator(s): Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Office of the Assistant Director for Operations. Geography Division. (03/13/1947 – 1968) This item lists Enumeration Districts for: TX ED 250-5: JUSTICE [...]
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1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions – Texas – Wood County – ED 250-1, ED 250-2, ED 250-3, ED 250-4, National Archives Identifier: 5884542 Creator(s): Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Office of the Assistant Director for Operations. Geography Division. (03/13/1947 – 1968) This item lists Enumeration Districts for: TX ED 250-1: JUSTICE PRECINCT 1 [...]
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Information just received from Requisitions and Acquisitions co-chair Dorothy Harbin is that we now have a new research and lookup resource from the Wood County Courthouse in the Wood County Genealogical Society research room. Vital statistics lists now housed there: 1. Marriage Records – Husband – 1878 – 2009 2. Marriage Records – Wife – [...]
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Wood County Genealogical Society members and all others interested can learn the who-what-where-when-why-and-how of the 1940 census April 16 at 7 p.m. at the free public meeting of the society at the Shamburger Room of the Quitman Public Library. The program will be presented by a distinguished veteran genealogist and member of the Association of [...]
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